"Sinocism is the Presidential Daily Brief for China hands"- Evan Osnos, New Yorker Correspondent and National Book Award Winner
- 药监局原副局长为升官诬告局长 逛天上人间被拍_新闻_腾讯网 – 近日，国家药监局原党组成员、副局长张敬礼因涉嫌受贿罪、诬告陷害罪、非法经营罪在市二中院受审。检方指控张敬礼的受贿额为117万余元；非法出售自己编著的书籍经营额达2300余万元，非法获利1600余万元；指使他人寄出1300余封诬告陷害他人的信件。
- China Plays Down Sea Disputes to Woo Asian Nations from U.S. ‘Siren Song’ – Bloomberg –
- British man found begging in Chinese city of Guangzhou – Telegraph – “I am not begging, but I need help,” he told the Guangzhou Information Times newspaper. “I was on my way to Hong Kong a few days ago and I was robbed of my mobile phone, laptop, wallet, and clothes. Fortunately I had my passport on me,” he said.
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership, China & the Future of Intellectual Property Law Negotiations | China Hearsay – In effect, when it comes to the TPP, U.S. strategy may include not only the military containment of China, but also a legal encirclement with respect to IP laws.
- U.S. Seeks IP Protection, Exports in China Talks – Bloomberg – Annual U.S.-Chinese trade talks opened today, with American officials aiming for China to take concrete action to protect intellectual property rights and buy more U.S. products.
The 22nd U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade opened in the central Chinese city of Chengdu as the U.S. pushed in recent weeks for China to change its economic policies, with President Barack Obama saying it must meet international standards if it wants to compete in the global marketplace. - Graff Diamonds Will Use Proceeds From Planned IPO to Open Stores in Asia – Bloomberg – Graff needs to do a better job of understanding Chinese consumers. US store refused entry to a very rich Chinese friend because he was dressed inappropriately. Guard would not let him in and then told him he could not loiter at the door. He was picking up something for his wife, he called her, she called the salesperson, obsequiousness and apologies ensued.
- Bush-Era Iraq Hawks Counsel GOP Hopefuls – Bloomberg– neocon losers are back w more bad counsel. intellectual cockroaches//Perry’s list of informal advisers includes Feith; Bolton; Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and later ambassador to Afghanistan; and Daniel Blumenthal, former Pentagon international security affairs director for China and Taiwan, according to a person familiar with the campaign who asked not to be named.
- Egypt Clashes Kill 11, Injure Almost 200 – Bloomberg – chaos in egypt, propaganda win for China government
- China: US Begins ‘Pacific Century’, Online Nationalism Follows · Global Voices– Most of China’s popular blog portal sites have sections for military news, often buried below panels for entertainment and love/relationship stories. Starting roughly in October with the quiet story that India continues to build up its presence along the border with China, posts on military topics seem to have grown in number and prominence on major blog hosting sites, reaching a peak this past week with reactions to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and US President Barack Obama’s Pacific swing, which wrapped up in Indonesia on Saturday.Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao insists that China is a good neighbor, but much of what’s been written in many recent blog posts and comment threads sort of suggests otherwise.
- Softly, Softly: Beijing Turns Other Cheek — For Now | Via Meadia – The cascade of statements, deployments, agreements and announcements from the United States and its regional associates in the last week has to be one of the most unpleasant shocks for China’s leadership — ever.
- Iceland government probes why Chinese tycoon wants big chunk of its land – The Washington Post –
- Director of Media Sales, Greater China – Beijing at Google 1 – US in Beijing, China. – Job | LinkedIn –
- 俞正声开明谈话是十八大“卡位战”？ –
- 军方十八大卡位战 驷马奔腾_多维新闻网 – 【多维新闻】在中共高层将领十八大卡位战的黑马中，除了“文刀三点水”之外，另一位名字带水的上将军也值得关注。他就是二炮政委张海阳。
说到张海阳就不得不提他的父亲﹑至今仍在世的张震上将。2009年张海阳获上将授衔，中国军史上绝无仅有的“父子上将”一时成为美谈。张震在中共军中以足智多谋著称，国共内战，张震身任三野参谋长，辅佐名将粟裕百战不殆，功名卓著。中共建政后，粟裕担任副总参谋长，张震成为总参谋部首任作战部长，得以展其长才。可惜粟裕后来屡遭排挤，仕途一路走下坡，张震也受牵连，55年授衔，以其战功和职务，该授上将，却只获中将。此后解放军取消军衔制，直到文革后于1988年重新授衔，张震获颁上将，并于1992年担任位高权重的军委副主席。以其97岁高龄，至今仍健在，真可谓夕阳无限好。 - 薄熙来：“唱红”是为提高市民素质 丰富文化生活_多维新闻网 –
- Amazon.com: The End of Cheap China: Economic and Cultural Trends that will Disrupt the World (9781118172063): Shaun Rein: Books – An exposé on how the rise of China will affect the American way of life
The End of Cheap China is a fun, riveting, must-read book not only for people doing business in China but for anyone interested in understanding the forces that are changing the world.
Many Americans know China for manufacturing cheap products, thanks largely to the country’s vast supply of low-cost workers. But China is changing, and the glut of cheap labor that has made everyday low prices possible is drying up as Chinese seek not to make iPhones, but to buy them. Shaun Rein, Founder of the China Market Research Group, puts China’s continuing transformation from producer to large-scale consumer – a process that is farther along than most economists think – under the microscope, examining eight megatrends that are catalyzing change in China and posing threats to Americans’ consumption-driven way of life.Rein takes an engaging and informative approach to examining the extraordinary changes taking place across all levels of Chinese society, talking to everyone from Chinese billionaires and senior government officials to poor migrant workers and even prostitutes and drawing on personal stories and experiences from living in China since the 1990s as well as hard economic data. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of China’s transformation, from fast-improving Chinese companies to confident, optimistic Chinese women to the role of China’s government, and at the end breaks down key lessons for readers to take away. - China’s Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypted Connections – Forbes –
- www.nsc.liu.se/~nixon/sshprobes.html– Some observations on the Great Firewall of China.//My hypothesis is that just over a year ago, a new function in the firewall went into limited beta test, where a sample of outgoing ssh connections from China is carefully selected for secondary screening.I don’t know what the selection criteria are, but apparently the probing only involves certain Chinese source networks (hence the lack of probes in connection to brute-force attacks) and certain target hosts.
For the selected ssh connections, the target system is probed from one or two IP addresses under the control of the Chinese government. These may be otherwise innocent addresses that are spoofed at the level of the great firewall, or they may be actual computers under remote control by the government – I have no way to tell.
I don’t know what the probes are supposed to accomplish. My only guess is that the government is looking for certain services it doesn’t approve of, like open proxies or Tor relays, and that precise fingerprinting may be too expensive. Instead, they resort to an inspection method similar to fuzzing, where pseudo-random data is thrown at the server, just to see what happens.
In some cases, the legitimate ssh connections are unsuccessful; they appear to be interrupted. This may be a result of the firewall deciding the target system to be unsuitable and injecting RST packets into the TCP stream to kill it.
The last few weeks, the frequency of the probing has increased. This might mean the beta test period is nearing its end, and that this function is about to become more widely deployed.
- Murong Xuecun Oslo Speech-Caging A Monster –
- Any attempt to interfere in South China Sea disputes will undermine regional peace, stability– BEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) — The recent high-profile U.S. “strategic” return to Asia and attempts to interfere in territorial disputes in the South China Sea have overshadowed the East Asia summit.It is known to all that South China Sea disputes are a bilateral issue between China and some relevant countries in the region.However, the U.S. failed to show due respect for China’s position on the issue and insisted on bringing the controversial topic to the 10+8 summit for discussion “in general terms.”
- 防火长城之父 方滨兴再现微博关评论 –
- 为了中华民族，火烧汉奸媒体“南方报系”_乌有之乡 – burning newspapers from southern weekend, a “traitor to china”, in shanxi
- Obama and Asian Leaders Confront Chinese Premier at Meeting – NYTimes.com –
- U.S. To Transfer Upgraded F-16s to Indonesia – Defense News– can’t US more than make up for lack of F-16 sales to Taiwan with sales to Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam?//The White House issued a statement Nov. 18 saying that it will transfer more than two dozen surplus F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters to Indonesia.”The Government of Indonesia has chosen to improve its internal air defense capability through the upgrade and regeneration of Excess Defense Articles (EDA) USAF F-16 Block 25 aircraft provided to the Government of Indonesia via a grant approved in August 2011,” the statement reads.
- Information Dissemination: New Chinese ASW aircraft – The long rumoured ASW aircraft has finally been revealed. In recent photos from an airport (my guess in Shaanxi AC), we see Y-8 ASW aircraft (dubbed HIgh New 6) amongst them. Here are some of its photos.
- Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis – James Fallows – National – The Atlantic– I can’t see any legitimate basis for police action like what is shown here. Watch that first minute and think how we’d react if we saw it coming from some riot-control unit in China, or in Syria. The calm of the officer who walks up and in a leisurely way pepper-sprays unarmed and passive people right in the face? We’d think: this is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population. That’s what I think here.Less than two months ago, it seemed shocking when one NYPD officer cavalierly walked up to a group of female protestors and pepper-sprayed them in the eyes. The UC Davis pepper-sprayer doesn’t slink away, as his NYPD counterpart did, but in every other way this is more coldly brutal. And by the way, when did we accept the idea that local police forces would always dress up in riot gear that used to be associated with storm troopers and dystopian sci-fi movies?